Trees form bonds that connect countries and civilisations, cultures and histories. Their seeds are carried by birds and bees, bats and flies, monkeys and man across continents and seas,they are the visible expressions of a living and vibrant ecosystem, nature in its crowning glory.
Ninety three per cent of the trees, which had been translocated at Deocha Pachami in Birbhum, are alive, creating a world record.
According to the Delhi Fire Services, after the receipt of a distress call at 1:01 pm, a team was dispatched to the location. The team, with the support of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Delhi Police, and local Boat Club volunteers, managed to safely rescue the man in a difficult operation before shifting him to a nearby hospital.
While there are several success stories of villagers planting more trees on their land and taking good care of them, the situation becomes different when it is a question of mobilizing people for regeneration of community and common land, including degraded forest land and village pastures.
The National Service Scheme (NSS) unit of Balagarh Bijoy Krishna Mahavidyalaya has been planting rare species of trees on its…
The Forest Department has granted permission to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to fell or transplant 2,940 trees in the North Forest Division, and 450 trees in the South Forest Division.
The trees were cut on Saturday and after a furore on social media and complaints by the green activists, the police filed an FIR.
Though forests still cover about 30 per cent of the world's land areas, they are disappearing at an alarming rate. In the time it takes to utter the word 'deforestation', another chunk of the forest, the size of a football pitch, gets destroyed. Today, deforestation is largely taking place in the fast growing tropical and sub-tropical regions, and in the rain forests, where population density is traditionally low but is now rising. While temperate zones were deforested long ago, it is now the tropical areas that are being deforested very quickly. The rainforests, the regions of astonishing biodiversity, are now facing major disturbances and human impacts.
MMRCL had started hacking trees from October 4 to make way for a car shed, hours after the Bombay HC dismissed four petitions challenging the decision to allow felling of over 2,700 trees in the prime green lung of the city.
In plants, it is known that experiences such as stress can alter the molecular wrapping around the chromosomes, and this determines which genes will be silenced. Scientists now know that events, like traumas and starvation, change animal brains and can be passed on to offspring.
